[OSM-talk] Tagging bridleways

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>Sent: 14 May 2008 9:40 AM
>To: Richard Fairhurst
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging bridleways
>
>>It's not quite a 1:1 mapping - a UK bridleway also means "cycles
>>permitted by right" and a whole host of other stuff, so it's a
>>valuable piece of information in itself.
>
>>By all means tag the individual users (horse=yes, bicycle=yes, etc.),
>>but I'd consider the official bridleway status a useful, taggable fact
>>in itself.
>
>What I'd like to get some idea of is what people as a whole consider
>highway=bridleway on its own(with no foot/horse/etc tags added) to mean -
>do people on the whole consider this to be a public bridleway, or a
>permissive bridleway? On freemap I assume permissive unless foot/horse=yes
>is added, rather like highway=footway is assumed to be permissive (in view
>of the large number of permssive footways in towns).
>

I generally only use highway=bridleway when the signs at the end of the
route say it's a public bridleway. Otherwise how would I know if it is or
not. However if there is some indication that it's a route suitable for
horse riders (eg an official looking horseshoe symbol) then I'll tag that as
bridleway too unless a higher usage is allowed.

Cheers

Andy